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| Athens Township, Isanti County, Minnesota Athens Township is a township in Isanti County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 2,322 at the 2000 census. Athens_Township,_Isanti_County,_Minnesota | |
| Pine City, Minnesota Pine City is a city in Pine County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 3,043 at the 2000 census. The estimated population in 2006 was 3,318. Pine City is the county seat of, and the largest city in, Pine County.Its name is an English translation of "Chengwatana" (Pine Town), originally an Ojibwe village located just east of Pine City, along the Snake River. Pine_City,_Minnesota | |
| Buffalo Lake, Minnesota Buffalo Lake is a city in Renville County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 768 at the 2000 census. Buffalo_Lake,_Minnesota | |
| Morton, Minnesota Morton is a city in Renville County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 442 at the 2000 census. Morton,_Minnesota | |
| Morris, Minnesota Morris is a city in Stevens County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 5,068 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Stevens County.The city is home to the University of Minnesota Morris (UMM), part of the University of Minnesota system. UMM is one of the largest employers in Morris along with the Stevens Community Medical Center and Superior Industries. Morris,_Minnesota | |
| Browns Valley, Minnesota Browns Valley is a city in Traverse County, Minnesota, United States, adjacent to the South Dakota border. The population was 690 at the 2000 census.Browns Valley lies along the Little Minnesota River between the northern end of Big Stone Lake and the southern end of Lake Traverse, which is separated from the Little Minnesota River by a low and narrow continental divide that skirts the northern edge of town. Browns_Valley,_Minnesota | |
| Italian American Italian_American | |
| Ancel Keys Ancel Benjamin Keys (January 26, 1904 November 20, 2004) was an American scientist who studied the influence of diet on health. In particular, he hypothesised that different kinds of dietary fat had different effects on health.He examined the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and was responsible for two famous dietsK-rations formulated as balanced meals for combat soldiers in World War II and the Mediterranean Diet, which, with his wife Margaret, he popularized. Ancel_Keys | |
| Reeder, North Dakota Reeder is a city in Adams County, North Dakota in the United States. The population was 181 at the 2000 census. Reeder was founded in 1907.A strain of wheat developed by the North Dakota Agriculture Experiment Station has been named after the town. Reeder,_North_Dakota | |
| Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment ( Prestupleniye i Nakazaniye) is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels after he returned from his exile in Siberia, and the first great novel of his mature period. Crime_and_Punishment | |
| Paul Wellstone Paul David Wellstone (July 21, 1944 - October 25, 2002) was a two-term U.S. Senator from the U.S. state of Minnesota and member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which is affiliated with the national Democratic Party. Before being elected to the Senate in 1990, he was a professor of political science at Carleton College. Paul_Wellstone | |
| First Chechen War The First Chechen War also known as the War in Chechnya was a conflict between Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria fought from December 1994 to August 1996. After the initial campaign of 1994–1995, culminating in the devastating Battle of Grozny, Russian federal forces attempted to seize control the mountainous area of Chechnya but were set back by Chechen guerrilla warfare and raids on the flatlands in spite of Russia's overwhelming manpower, weaponry, and air support. First_Chechen_War | |
| Maxine Hong Kingston Maxine Hong Kingston (; born October 27 1940) is a Chinese American author and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Maxine_Hong_Kingston | |
| UNIVAC I The UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I) was the first commercial computer produced in the United States. J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the inventors of the ENIAC. Design work was begun by their company, Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, and was completed after the company had been acquired by Remington Rand. (In the years before successor models of the UNIVAC I appeared, the machine was simply known as "the UNIVAC".) UNIVAC_I | |
| Dean Barkley Dean Malcolm Barkley (born August 31, 1950) is a lawyer and politician who briefly served as a member of the United States Senate from Minnesota following the death of Paul Wellstone. A founder and chair of the Minnesota Reform Party (the predecessor of the Independence Party of Minnesota), he chaired Jesse Ventura's successful 1998 gubernatorial campaign; Ventura subsequently appointed him director of the state's Office of Strategic and Long Range Planning. Dean_Barkley | |
| Precision agriculture Precision farming or precision agriculture is an agricultural concept relying on the existence of in-field variability. It's about doing the right thing, in the right place, in the right way, at the right time. It requires the use of new technologies, such as global positioning (GPS), sensors, satellites or aerial images, and information management tools (GIS) to assess and understand variations. Precision_agriculture | |
| Gwen Stacy Gwen_Stacy | |
| UNIVAC UNIVAC is the name of a business unit and division of the Remington Rand company formed by the 1950 purchase of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, founded four years earlier by ENIAC inventors J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly and the associated line of computers which continues to this day in one of the two such lines offered by Unisys. UNIVAC | |
| Hypothermia Hypothermia (from Greek ὑποθερμία) is a condition in which an organism's temperature drops below that required for normal metabolism and bodily functions. In warm-blooded animals, core body temperature is maintained near a constant level through biologic homeostasis. But, when the body is exposed to cold, its internal mechanisms may be unable to replenish the heat that is being lost to the organism's surroundings. Hypothermia | |
| Ireland Ireland | |
| IBM 7030 Stretch The IBM 7030, also known as Stretch, was IBM's first transistorized supercomputer. The first one was delivered to Los Alamos in 1961. IBM_7030_Stretch | |
| Lark Larks are passerine birds of the family Alaudidae. All species occur in the Old World, including northern and eastern Australia; only one, the Shore Lark, has spread to North America, where it is called the Horned Lark. Habitats vary widely, but many species live in dry regions. Lark | |
| Granite Falls, Minnesota Granite Falls is a city in Chippewa, Renville, and Yellow Medicine counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The population was 3,070 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Yellow Medicine County. The Andrew John Volstead House, a National Historic Landmark is located in Granite Falls. Granite_Falls,_Minnesota | |
| Chatfield, Minnesota Chatfield is a city in Fillmore and Olmsted counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The population was 2,394 at the 2000 census. The city's area is split almost equally between the two counties. Chatfield,_Minnesota | |
| Body Worlds Body Worlds (German titleKörperwelten) is a traveling exhibition of preserved human bodies and body parts that are prepared using a technique called plastination to reveal inner anatomical structures. The exhibition's developer and promoter is a German anatomist Gunther von Hagens, who invented the plastination technique in the late 1970s at the University of Heidelberg.Body Worlds was first presented in Tokyo in 1995. Body_Worlds | |
| Bulbul Bulbuls (Pycnonotidae) are a family of medium-sized passerine songbirds. Many forest species are known as greenbuls. The family is distributed across most of Africa and into the Middle East, tropical Asia to Indonesia, and north as far as Japan. A few insular species occur on the tropical islands of the Indian Ocean There are about 130 species in around 24 genera. Bulbul | |
| Hilbert's problems Hilbert's problems are a list of twenty-three problems in mathematics put forth by German mathematician David Hilbert at the Paris conference of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1900. The problems were all unsolved at the time, and several of them turned out to be very influential for 20th century mathematics. Hilbert presented ten of the problems (1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 13, 16, 19, 21 and 22) at the conference, speaking on 8 August in the Sorbonne; the full list was published later. Hilbert's_problems | |
| Permian–Triassic extinction event Talk:Permian–Triassic_extinction_event | |
| Christopher Isherwood Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (August 26, 1904 Anglo-American novelist. Christopher_Isherwood | |
| Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), part of the executive branch of the federal government. The 1994 Department Reorganization Act, passed by Congress, created CSREES by combining the former Cooperative State Research Service and the Extension Service into a single agency. Colien Hefferan currently serves as the agency's Administrator. Cooperative_State_Research,_Education,_and_Extension_Service | |
| Peregrine Falcon The Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus), also known simply as the Peregrine, and historically as the "Duck Hawk" in North America, is a cosmopolitan bird of prey in the family Falconidae. It is a large, crow-sized falcon, with a blue-gray back, barred white underparts, and a black head and "moustache". It can reach speeds over , making it the fastest animal in the world. Peregrine_Falcon | |
| Data General Data General was one of the first minicomputer firms from the late 1960s. Three of the four founders were former employees of Digital Equipment Corporation. Their first product, the Nova, was a 16-bit minicomputer. The Nova, followed by the Supernova, and the Eclipse product lines, were used in many applications for the next two decades. Data_General | |
| Minnesota Orchestra The Minnesota Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Emil Oberhoffer founded the orchestra in 1903 as the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, which gave its first performance on November 5 of that year. The name was changed in 1968, and in 1974, the organization moved from its regular performance venue of Northrop Memorial Auditorium at the University of Minnesota's Minneapolis campus to Orchestra Hall in the city's downtown district. Minnesota_Orchestra | |
| Microsoft Flight Simulator Microsoft Flight Simulator (sometimes abbreviated to MSFS or FS) is a flight simulator program for Microsoft Windows, marketed and often seen as a video game.One of the longest-running, best-known and most comprehensive home flight simulator series, Microsoft Flight Simulator was an early product in the Microsoft portfolio – different from its other software which was largely business-oriented – and at 25 years is its longest-running franchise, predating Windows by three years. Microsoft_Flight_Simulator | |
| National FFA Organization The National FFA Organization is an American youth organization known as a Career and Technical Student Organization, based on middle and high school classes that promote and support agricultural education. The organization, founded in 1928 as Future Farmers of America, now states it has over 507,763 members in 7,439 chapters throughout all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands. National_FFA_Organization | |
| Human rights in the United States The United States has a long and established tradition in the area of human rights. Legally, human rights within the United States are those rights defined by the Constitution of the United States and amendments, conferred by treaty, and enacted legislatively through Congress, state legislatures, and plebiscites (state referenda). The Constitution and treaties are generally interpreted by the judicial branch, making it the key Human_rights_in_the_United_States | |
| Human rights in the United States Talk:Human_rights_in_the_United_States | |
| Aphid Aphids, also known as plant lice (and in Britain as greenflies), are small plant-eating insects, and members of the superfamily Aphidoidea. Aphids are among the most destructive insect pests on cultivated plants in temperate regions. The damage they do to plants has made them enemies of farmers and gardeners the world over, but from a purely zoological standpoint they are a very successful group of animals. Aphid | |
| TakuyaMurata User:TakuyaMurata | |
| Porajmos The Porajmos (also Porrajmos, literally, Devouring in some dialects of the Romani language) is a Romani term introduced by Romani scholar and activist Ian Hancock to describe attempts by the regime in Nazi Germany to exterminate most of the Romani people of Europe as part of the Holocaust. Porajmos | |
| Tobacco mosaic virus Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) is an RNA virus that infects plants, especially tobacco and other members of the family Solanaceae. The infection causes characteristic patterns (mottling and discoloration) on the leaves (thence the name). TMV was the first virus to be discovered. Although it was known from the late 19th century that an infectious disease was damaging tobacco crops, it was not until 1930 that the infectious agent was determined to be a virus. Tobacco_mosaic_virus | |
| Advance health care directive Advance health care directives, also known as advance directives or advance decisions, are instructions given by individuals specifying what actions should be taken for their health in the event that they are no longer able to make decisions due to illness or incapacity. Advance_health_care_directive | |
| Punctuated equilibrium Talk:Punctuated_equilibrium | |
| List of animal welfare groups List_of_animal_welfare_groups | |
| Saint Anthony Falls Saint Anthony Falls, or the Falls of Saint Anthony, located northeast of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, was the only natural major waterfall on the Upper Mississippi River. The natural falls was replaced by a concrete overflow spillway (also called an "apron") after it partially collapsed in 1869. Later, in the 1950s and 1960s, a series of locks and dams were constructed to extend navigation to points upstream. Saint_Anthony_Falls | |
| Treasure Island Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold". First published as a book in 1883, it was originally serialised in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881-82 under the title The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island. Treasure_Island | |
| Sentience Sentience is the ability to feel or perceive subjectively. The term is used in philosophy (particularly in the philosophy of animal ethics and in eastern philosophy) as well as in science fiction and (occasionally) in the study of artificial intelligence. In each of these fields the term is used slightly differently. Sentience | |
| Schenck v. United States Schenck v. United States, , was a United States Supreme Court decision concerning the question of whether the defendant possessed a First Amendment right to free speech against the draft during World War I. Charles Schenck was the Secretary of the Socialist party and was responsible for printing, distributing, and mailing 15,000 leaflets to men eligible for the draft that advocated opposition to the draft. Schenck_v._United_States | |
| Happiness Happiness is a state of mind or feeling such as contentment, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy. A variety of philosophical, religious, psychological and biological approaches have been taken to defining happiness and identifying its sources.Philosophers and religious thinkers have often defined happiness in terms of living a good life, or flourishing, rather than simply as an emotion. Happiness | |
| Macalester College Macalester College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was founded in 1874 as a Presbyterian-affiliated but nonsectarian college. Its first class entered September 15, 1885. The college is located on a 53 acre (21.4 ha) campus in a historic residential neighborhood and includes seven academic buildings, ten residences, a library, and a technology center. Macalester_College |
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